By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

The more complaints that Donald Trump throws out there regarding the presidential election, the smaller, more venal, more petty and less presidential, undemocratic and unpatriotic he sounds.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly — finally! — accepted President-elect Biden’s election on Nov. 3. It’s not that McConnell deserves high praise for doing what he should have done long ago.

It is that Trump now has blasted McConnell — one of his staunchest allies in the Senate — for, um, speaking the truth! It is that the Electoral College has certified Biden’s victory and that McConnell now is ready to say aloud what he likely knew all along in private … which is that Joe Biden is going to move into the White House on Jan. 20 and that Donald Trump will become a private citizen.

What shouldn’t be a surprise is that Trump fears the truth. Which might explain why he cannot tell us the truth. Not ever!

I am just puzzled at how Trump continues to look at himself in the mirror and ignore what many millions of Americans know already: that Trump is a petty, petulant narcissist who is inflicting real damage on the institutions of government he took an oath to defend and protect.